MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRIC POWER IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Currently, Nigeria has an installed electricity generation capacity for supply to the national grid of 12,522MW, with available capacity of only approximately 4,500 MW which even dropped to as low as 1,200 MW at a time, to meet the needs of Nigeria’s population of more than 170 million and a country with a GDP growth rate of 7%. The Management of the Power Sector has been a great challenge. This research was carried out in Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Niger Region. AEDC is a major stake holder in the Power Sector. The study population for this research covers a Business Units of the Niger Region. Analysis of the data collected revealed that energy losses incurred the area office in 2016 is 46.33%, collection losses 62.50%, metering gap is 45% unmetered and customer to employee ratio is 863:1.